Love Is Blind: Habibi is returning to Netflix with 27 singles hoping to find lasting relationships without seeing their potential partners first. Season two features 14 women and 13 men from 12 Arab countries, with backgrounds spanning fashion, entrepreneurship, entertainment, fitness and other industries.

The Arabic-language dating series premieres globally on November 12, 2026. Lebanese television personality Wissam Braidy and Tunisian model and presenter Rym Saidi will host the 10-episode season, guiding the contestants as they explore whether connections formed through conversation alone can lead to marriage.

Meet the Women of Love Is Blind: Habibi Season 2

The women’s lineup includes a model who has walked for Chanel, entrepreneurs, an actress and contestants with interests ranging from literature to travel.

Alia El Rahmany

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30, Egyptian: El Rahmany lives in Dubai and describes herself as a “freshman” on Instagram.

Nour Yahya

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30, Sudanese: Yahya is a model who walked for Chanel during Paris Fashion Week in March. She described the opportunity as an honour.

Rabab Ahmad

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34, Lebanese: Ahmad runs Dhyana Yoga Studio and Cafe in Zambia. She is also a literature enthusiast who runs a book club that has featured works by Japanese authors Haruki Murakami and Kazuo Ishiguro.

Karima Chamsi

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34, Moroccan: Chamsi describes herself as a serial entrepreneur with interests in art and fashion. She also walked the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival in September.

Ranouna Essafi

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25, Tunisian: Essafi describes herself as a head of recruitment, content creator and model. She is based between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, balancing her corporate work with fashion and digital content.

Rita Chamaa

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31, Lebanese: Chamaa plays the piano and enjoys literature. She describes herself as someone who regularly leaves bookshops with a romance novel or a book on psychology.

Reem El Gendy

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27, Egyptian: El Gendy founded Reve, a clothing brand with the motto “made to be seen and remembered”.

Razan Alakhras

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33, Jordanian: Alakhras shared a photograph of herself at the beach on Instagram before the show’s announcement, expressing a wish for “sunny beaches and dreamy days”.

Bayan Issa

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30, Syrian: Issa is a fashion influencer and avid traveller. She describes her interests as “reinvention, life, and everything in between”.

Uruk Ashour

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30, Iraqi: Ashour is an actress who appeared in the 2023 film The Salesman. She is also a film enthusiast and posted about her excitement to watch Sean Baker’s film Anora in 2024.

Suki Hamawi

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31, Moroccan: Hamawi enjoys travelling, road trips, hiking and swimming. She also describes herself as someone who enjoys chasing sunsets and catching up with her female friends.

Hayat Matar

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30, Bahraini: Matar is the founder of Azlia, a clothing brand based in the UAE.

Rania Mansour

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29, Algerian: Mansour is based between Europe and Dubai. One personal detail she has shared is that she owns a Persian cat named Romeo.

Zeinab Shaaban

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32, Lebanese: Shaaban describes herself as a dietitian and is the co-founder of Sol y Sal, a jewellery brand based in the UAE. Her stated interests include fitness, fashion and travel.

Meet the Men of Love Is Blind: Habibi Season 2

The men’s lineup includes entrepreneurs, a former professional boxing champion, a chemical engineer, a published author and professionals working across real estate, human resources and creative technology.

Nawras Kurdi

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39, Syrian: Kurdi is the founder of Breakwater Adventure, a UAE-based company specialising in paddleboarding and kayaking. He describes himself on social media as “Mr Worldwide”.

Saad Abed

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31, Saudi Arabian: Abed is a self-described fan of Greek mythology and has visited Greece to learn more about the subject.

Omar Elsaid

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32, Egyptian: Elsaid enjoys sailing, kitesurfing and horseback riding. He has described the ocean as his “comfort zone”.

Ahmed Selim

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31, Egyptian: Selim describes himself as a former professional boxing champion and a sports enthusiast. He also has an interest in menswear.

Ziad Moghrabi

37, Lebanese: Moghrabi works as the head of human resources for a luxury fashion company. He published his book Thrive in Retail in 2024 and has a dog named Spitzie.

Mohammad Alkhatib

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29, Jordanian: Alkhatib is a real estate sales director who specialises in off-plan properties.

Youssef Boupa

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28, Moroccan: Boupa describes himself as a CEO, entrepreneur and investor. Outside his business interests, he is an avid skier.

Omar Abouseif

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38, Egyptian: Based between Dubai and Toronto, Abouseif enjoys horseback riding, fishing and fitness.

Talal Al Halabi

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32, Lebanese: Al Halabi is the founder of Vin17 Automotive Creative Studio, which works with artificial intelligence, CGI and mixed reality. He is also a car enthusiast.

Moustain

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30, Moroccan: Moustain has interests in menswear and travel. His social media posts have included photographs taken aboard private aircraft and helicopters.

Omran Quli

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45, Kuwaiti: Quli is a chemical engineer, the owner of OQ’s Boat Rental in Kuwait and a fitness coach.

Faris

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45, Iraqi: Faris keeps a low public profile, with no public social media account identified in The National’s cast coverage.

Omar Abdulhadi

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39, Lebanese: Abdulhadi works in digital media and received an award at the 2026 Digital Media Awards. He described himself as “grateful and blessed” following the recognition.

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Khloé Kardashian is expanding the Kardashian television universe with a new Hulu reality series centred on her closest friends rather than her famous family. “The Girls” premieres August 21, 2026, with all six episodes of the first season dropping at once. The series will also be available via the Hulu and Disney+ bundle in the U.S. and on Disney+ in select international markets.

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Produced by Bunim/Murray Productions, a division of Banijay Americas, The show centres on Kardashian’s inner circle. Khloé serves as executive producer alongside Julie Pizzi, Farnaz Farjam, Nicole Blais, and Lauren Goldstein. The cast includes Natalie Halcro, Malika Haqq, Khadijah Haqq, Yris Palmer, Olivia Pierson, and Nicole Williams English, women who have appeared around the franchise for years, but who now carry the story themselves.

According to the official synopsis, “The Girls” follows the group through career launches, family decisions, girls’ trips, and the everyday work of balancing business with motherhood and marriage. The through-line is friendship, and specifically what happens when a shared connection to one person puts a group of women in the same room.

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That tension is front and center in the first trailer. “The bonds I have with my girls are unbreakable,” Khloé says. “But what about their bonds with each other? It’s going to be a little cliquey without meaning to be. Just because they’re all our besties doesn’t mean they’re all best friends with each other.”

It’s a candid setup, and it distinguishes the series from the family-driven format that made “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” a decade-long fixture. Several cast members have long histories on camera. Malika and Khadijah Haqq have been close to Khloé for more than 20 years. Halcro and Pierson first appeared on “KUWTK” before pursuing their own projects. Williams English has maintained ties to the family, and Palmer entered the orbit through Kylie Jenner before building her own beauty brand.

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For Hulu, the launch continues a strategy of expanding the Kardashian-Jenner brand without always putting the family at the center. For Khloé, it’s a producer credit that lets her shape the narrative around the women she’s grown up with in the industry.

“The Girls” arrives at a time when reality television is moving toward tighter casts and more specific premises. By focusing on a friend group rather than a family tree, the series tests whether that audience will follow the orbit, not just the core. With a full-season drop on August 21, viewers will get the answer all at once.

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Vertical released the trailer for “Couture,” the Paris-set drama from writer-director Alice Winocour. The film is slated for a theatrical release on June 26. Led by Angelina Jolie, “Couture” follows Maxine, an American filmmaker who arrives in Paris during Fashion Week. A professional assignment during Fashion Week gradually becomes a personal reckoning. As Maxine crosses paths with women of different ages and backgrounds, each grappling with their own claim to autonomy, she finds herself drawn into a quiet love story with a past collaborator. The professional visit becomes a personal reckoning with the choices that have shaped her life.

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The film premiered at TIFF in the Special Presentations section before Vertical picked it up for North American distribution. Runtime is approximately 103–106 minutes.

With “Couture,” Winocour continues her focus on female-centered stories about survival. In her previous film, “Proxima,” Alice Winocour examined the personal cost of ambition through a mother preparing for a space mission away from her daughter. “Paris Memories” follows a woman rebuilding her life in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, further extending Winocour’s focus on female characters navigating trauma, resilience, and emotional recovery.

Here, the fashion world becomes her latest lens, a controlled, image-driven environment where the line between public spectacle and private fracture is increasingly thin.

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Jolie, who also produces, said the film is about life rather than loss, especially in how it approaches illness. “Too often, films about women’s struggles, especially cancer, talk about endings and sadness, rarely about life,” she noted. “Alice has made a film about life, and that’s why the sensitive subjects it addresses are handled with such delicacy.”

The supporting cast features Louis Garrel, Ella Rumpf, Garance Marillier, Anyier Anei, and Vincent Lindon. “Couture” opens in theaters via Vertical on June 26.

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